{"id":4039,"date":"2013-03-01T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2013-03-01T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:04:45","slug":"cant-tell-if-troll-part-the-millionth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4039","title":{"rendered":"Can’t tell if troll part the millionth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fry-can-t-tell-meme-generator-can-t-tell-if-satire-or-just-troll-1e7d86\"<\/a>It turns out the military rape (of women) is a problem<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The National Review Online responds, as you might imagine, by blaming the victims and by changing the subject.<\/p>\n

In an epic move that should be satire, but isn’t, Heather Mac Donald<\/a> argues thusly:<\/p>\n

But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say that for these homeless female vets, it really was their sexual experiences in the military that caused their downward spiral into, as the Times<\/em> puts it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alcohol and substance abuse, depression and domestic violence.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Why then have those same feminists who are now lamenting the life-destroying effects of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153MST\u00e2\u20ac\u009d insisted on putting women into combat units?<\/strong> Arguably, coming under enemy fire or falling into enemy hands is as traumatic as the behavior one may experience while binge-drinking with one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fellow soldiers or as scarring as being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bullied and ostracized\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by a female superior. Are women on average going to be more able to emotionally handle the former than the latter? Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there a contradiction in expecting the military to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153protect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d you while it also sends you out to face mortal risk?<\/strong> And do the feminists believe that there will be fewer of these alleged rapes in combat training and duty? Perhaps they think that with enough multi-million-dollar gender-equity training contracts showered on the gender-industrial complex, the problem will go away. Or perhaps they think that keeping before us proof that the patriarchy is alive and well is more important than protecting women from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153MST,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d especially if that image can serve as grounds for remaking the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The point is that if you cannot protect yourself from rape, or you cannot deal with the consequences of rape, then you have no place in the combat zone.\u00c2\u00a0 To suggest otherwise is some kind of inconsistency: how can women sustain the rigors of combat?\u00c2\u00a0 They can’t even deal with being raped.<\/p>\n

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It turns out the military rape (of women) is a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 The National Review Online responds, as you might imagine, by blaming the victims and by changing the subject. In an epic move that should be satire, but isn’t, Heather Mac Donald argues thusly: But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say that for these homeless female vets, it really … Continue reading Can’t tell if troll part the millionth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1204,1594,1596,1593,1595,199],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cant-tell-if-troll","tag-heather-macdonald","tag-military-rape","tag-nro-online","tag-rape","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}